BBC campaign update and Dec demo

Great British Bake Off co-host Sandi Toksvig, scientist Alice Roberts, comedian Ed Byrne and 30 other public figures have written an open letter to BBC Director General Tony Hall calling for humanists and other non-religious thinkers to be included on Thought for the Day. Please see bottom of this page for the full list of signatories.

One of the main aims of the campaign is to get people talking about Humanism so this has been a great week for SELHuG. The Press Association picked up the story which led to its appearance in a range of regional and local media. Readers’ responses made it the leading subject on the Guardian letters page two days later (Thursday 15 Nov), it has featured in several national diary pieces and led to a fair amount of social media chatter.

We handed the letter in to the BBC at our monthly demonstration on Tuesday morning. Last month’s letter was handed in personally by veteran campaigner and former President of the National Secular Society, Barbara Smoker, and the month before by humanist celebrant and activist Trevor Moore. We don’t usually get a response. Will this letter, signed by the great and good, get a reply? Watch this space!